Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania editorially managed by John M. Gresham assisted in the compilation by Samuel T. Wiley, A Citizen of the County Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co. Chicago: 1889 http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/fayette/gresham.htm Table of Contents. p484 JAMES A ZIMMERMAN, a leading grocer of Connellsville, is a son of Jacob E Zimmerman and Anna Houck Zimmerman, natives of Fulton and Franklin counties, Penna, respectively. His father is one of the leading farmers of Fulton county where he owns a fine farm of four hundred acres of land. The grandfather of James A Zimmerman, George Zimmerman, born in Pennsylvania and was in his day one of the leading farmers and merchants of Fulton till his death in 1867. Jacob Zimmerman, the great grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Pennsylvania making the Zimmerman family one of the earliest that settled in Pennsylvania. He was of German origin and a farmer and miller of Franklin county. J A Zimerman's maternal grandfather, Micheal Houck, was also of German extraction and followed farming in Franklin county. James A Zimmerman was born in Fulton county, Penna, February 27, 1851. Reared on the farm, educated in the common schools of his native county and at the Normal School at Shippensburg, Penna. He afterwards graduated from the commercial college at Williamsport, Penna, in 1876. At the age of twenty years he began teaching district school in Fulton and Lycoming counties. In 1881 he went to Altoona where he was engaged as a teacher in the commercial college. He continued to teach therein till 1883 when he located at Connellsville and started in the grocery business, and has been very successful in building up one of the most paying mercantile businesses at Connellsville. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of the Masonic fraternity, of the Knights of Pythias, of the Senior Order of American Mechanics, of the Heptasophs and is a republican. He was married in 1884 to Miss Carrie Fields of Hancock, Maryland. They have one child: Etta Zimmerman. Mr Zimmerman is a stockholder in the Connellsville Flint and Glass Works and is also interested in a loan association at Minneapolis, Minnesota. He owns considerable property at Garden City, Kansas, and is one of the most enterprising and progressive young businessmen of the county. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania editorially managed by John M. Gresham assisted in the compilation by Samuel T. Wiley, A Citizen of the County Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co. Chicago: 1889 http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/fayette/gresham.htm Table of Contents. -- Thanks, Paul Andree - Mt Dora, Lake Co, Florida Real Estate Investments - Grants Web site at: http://www.netmender.net Health pages - http://netmender.net/health/ New Vision Website - http://www.newvision.net/pandree Articles and New Vision Natural Health Products Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ Christian Teaching Daily mail list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianTeachingDaily Philippians 4: 6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.